Re: Tux2 - evil patents sighted

[john slee]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 05:02:36PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Here's a gem of a claim from the main WAFL patent:
> 
>   "20. The method of claim 8 further comprising the step of using one or 
>   more of said read-only copies of said file system to back-up said 
>   blocks comprising one or more consistency points of said file system."
>   http://innominate.org/~phillips/wafl.patent.5819292.html
> 
> I may be interpreting this incorrectly, but this seems to say that they
> claim proprietary rights to making a backup from a checkpoint.

also sounds very similar to [one use for] lvm snapshots.  does hp-ux
have those too?  (linux lvm documentation seems to say it [lvm] was
based on a similar hp-ux feature...)

j.

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